grind

As politicians traded barbs, US government services started to grind to a halt and thousands of federal workers stayed home.

He hopes that experience - knowing both the glamour and the grind - will help him build shows fighters can trust.

In the latter you can see how, in the 17th Century, the Dutch were using windmills not just to grind grain, but to do things like grind pigments to make paint or saw wood.

At this point, an attritional match - which had quality but saw more grind - remained deadlocked.

Building permits are grinding slowly through the bureaucracy, hammers are swinging and a new Altadena will one day rise from the ashes.